Moreover the king of Egypt spoke to the Hebrew midwives, one of whom was named Shiphrah and the other Puah,
and made their lives bitter with hard labor with mortar and brick, doing all sorts of work in the fields. In all their labors they worked them with cruelty.
and said, “When you help the Hebrew women during childbirth, look at the sex. If it’s a son, then kill him, but if it’s a daughter, she may live.”
He said to them, “I am a Hebrew and I fear Adonai God of the heavens, who made the sea and the dry land.”
But she had brought them up to the roof and hidden them in the stalks of flax that she had spread out on the roof.